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First UK edition with a full 1 to 10 number sequence indicating a first printing. Price still on dustjacket. There is a crease (production fault) in the FFEP and also a minor indentation running right across the rear board (about 2 inches down from the top. Otherwise the book is in lovely condition having been read carefully once. A Hatton and Roumande Mystery. “London in 1856 is gripped by a frightening obsession. The specimen-collecting craze is growing, and discoveries in far-off jungles are reshaping the known world in terrible and unimaginable ways. When the glamorous Lady Bessingham is found murdered in her bedroom, surrounded by her vast collection of fossils and tribal masks, Professor Adolphus Hatton and his morgue assistant Albert Roumande are called in to examine the crime scene – and the body. In the new and suspicious world of forensics and autopsy examinations, Hatton and Roumande are the best.” IN STOCK FOR IMMEDIATE DESPATCH